With the plague of hail begins the last series of plagues, which differ from the former both in their severity and their effects. Each produced a t…

The wheat and the rie. —“Rie,” or rye, is a wrong translation. It is a grain which has never been grown in Egypt. The only three k…

But the wheat and the rye were not smitten
Bruised, broken, beat down, and destroyed by hail: the word rendered by u…

Woeful havoc this hail caused: it killed both men and cattle. The grain above ground was destroyed, and only that which had not yet come up was pre…